Word: hops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...successful performance of the trick. Next afternoon he stepped onto the stage again. Excited, he forgot to have the lights dimmed, began to mutter mystically in the glare of a white spotlight. The audience saw a thin bright wire hoist the rope aloft, saw the Hindu boy climb up, hop easily behind a curtain. When the bloody members thudded down and the magician picked them up, the audience tittered to see an arm left oozing on the stage after the whole boy had reappeared. Magician Heger announced that he would not go to London...
...jagged mountains, snake-infested jungles, deserts, hurricanes and typhoons. Toughest stretch was across the Syrian Desert where blinding sandstorms sometimes rise 20,000 ft. and huge kitebirds menace aerial navigation. Not much easier was the 2,210-mi. jump from Allahabad to Singapore, with its Bay of Bengal water hop nearly as long as the North Atlantic. To the participants in the race Lloyd's of London gave a 1-in-12 chance of being killed. Purely a long-distance speed race, the MacRobertson Derby was a free-for-all with virtually no restrictions. Chief requirement was that contestants...
Last week a Paris dispatch reported another and possibly more effective attack on yellow fever. Immunologist Jean Laigret of the Pasteur Institute of Tunis announced that he had successfully vaccinated 3,000 individuals against yellow fever at Dakar, French West Africa, which is achieving business importance as a French hop-off for South Atlantic aviation. If wholesale vaccination is possible, whole populations can be protected against yellow fever as simply and thoroughly as they now are protected against smallpox. And communities will not be encumbered by the expensive necessity of eradicating yellow fever mosquitoes...
...heat was hard upon the flesh, drought was harder on the spirit. As he went into the "secondary" drought zone in Montana, Lawrence Westbrook, assist ant to Relief Administrator Harry Hop kins, boarded the train to give him figures: 24 States drought-devastated; 27,000,000 people drought-affected; 25% of the families in Montana and the Dakotas in need of transplanting to better lands; total damage to date $5,000,000,000. Next day in the deeper drought country, the President rode past fields where cattle were munching the last dry straws of a crop that would never...
...butterflies, lets no threatening skeletons loose on a frightened world, hurls no manifesto, literary or political. Pertinacious sniffers might accuse Author Faulkner of abetting James Joyce in attempting to restore the pun as an honest figure of speech; but most readers will take these and similar skylarkings with a hop, skip and a jump. As lively and tuneful as a good musicomedy, Friends and Romans is no more profound, but it is cheaper and better entertainment...